Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] the " in BNC.

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1 In my opinion in Ex parte Agegate Ltd. , the fact that the residence requirement was applicable to British citizens and nationals of other member states alike was the main element in the reasoning which led me to take the view , unlike the court , that that requirement was compatible with Community law : see para. 57 .
2 In ‘ Jimmy Munro 's Troubles ’ ( Ex. 1.8 ) Corvan uses the banality of its phrasing , repetitions , sequences and harmonic structure to help construct a mock-simpleton persona which enables him to cloak the bite of his social criticism in humour ; he plays at ‘ acting the fool ’ , in tortuous verbal constructions and juxtapositions of the serious and the trivial — just as the ‘ Bow , Wow , Wow ’ song originally did — but the real problems of railway accidents , rent and ragged clothes turn the joke around .
3 The logistic equation which allows us to calculate the p value is :
4 And unless someone possesses unique powers of extrasensory perception which enables him to influence the balls in the caller 's cabinet , character references are strictly irrelevant to the outcome of the jolly game of life in which eyes look down rather than upward for support .
5 They are provided with guidance which enables them to take the initiative .
6 A deluxe hotel enjoying a peaceful location and overlooking the wide expanse of the Gulf of Siam , the Dusit Resort is a stunning complex which allows you to enjoy the many benefits of its beachside location , without foregoing comfort and top-class service .
7 On this prompting the Base controller also saw a trace which led him to challenge the aircraft 's position report at BN .
8 It was either the carrot or the stick which helped me to complete the analysis and report on my results .
9 The same is true of free , fit , apt , able , etc. , all of which denote a quality in the person designated as the support which predisposes him to realize the action referred to by the infinitive in a certain way .
10 It is especially this formation which enables us to define the difficult concept of a fraction .
11 Then Nomadic Way brought the stamina which enabled him to win the Cesarewitch two years ago into play and finishing well up that final testing hill , he failed by only a head to catch Cruising Altitude .
12 Because it is the grace of baptism administered to an infant which allows them to receive the grace of communion and therefore they are in essential , as well as being universal members of the church , they 're membe they 're communicant members of the church .
13 Solicitors develop a detailed knowledge of the working of the business which enables them to represent the firm 's interests more effectively .
14 They are more like shadows in the forest which enable us to see the contour of the trees to bring them together as the forces of darkness is to obliterate both the wood and the trees .
15 In order to claim a scientific status for Marxism as knowledge rather than ideology , or non-knowledge , Althusser invoked Bachelard 's historical epistemology which allowed him to posit the idea of a radical discontinuity between the two , with Marxist science separated from earlier forms of non-knowledge in Marx 's texts by an ‘ epistemological break ’ .
16 Douglas affected a dispatch box pose which enabled him to deliver the juicier bits of the legal volte- face to a point in the mid-distance somewhere above the Opposition gallery .
17 Where , for instance , the characteristics which he attributes to oral communication persist in a society with literacy , and would thus appear to undermine the case for the ‘ intrinsic ’ qualities of literacy , Goody draws a further distinction which enables him to maintain the purity of his ideal model .
18 Speech act theory , by attempting to single out the pieces of shared knowledge which enable us to interpret the function of what is said , also assumes that we can distinguish which factors in the situation are relevant , but again it does nothing to explain how we distinguish the relevant from the irrelevant .
19 His pictures are not narrowly documentary though but rich in personal observation and involvement in the visual event which urged him to press the shutter and preserve the stilled vision as a permanent memory-image .
20 His pictures are not narrowly documentary though but rich in personal observation and involvement in the visual event which urged him to press the shutter and preserve the stilled vision as a permanent memory-image .
21 A First National Bank loan puts valuable cash in your pocket and is an extremely flexible facility which enables you to choose the sum you wish to borrow at a monthly repayment you feel able to manage comfortably .
22 A First National Bank loan puts valuable cash in your pocket and is an extremely flexible facility which enables you to choose the sum you wish to borrow at a monthly repayment you feel able to manage comfortably .
23 The option consists of two pages : an initial page which allows you to view the titles of the mail messages you will be inspecting , and a second page which allows you to inspect each mail message , page by page .
24 The option consists of two pages : an initial page which allows you to select the mail messages you wish to inspect , and a second page which allows you to inspect each mail message , page by page .
25 The same tenacious vanity which enabled him to survive the next nine years of penury wrecked his chances of succeeding as a writer .
26 Everyone else was allowed a lot of latitude , particularly in sexual matters , and then just before they died they took the consolamentum which permitted them to enter the life of the spirit . ’
27 After cashing the nine of clubs the ace of diamonds is an entry to dummy which allows you to cash the remaining two club tricks and discard your losing diamond and spade .
28 Fogerty , 23 , appears as a South African boxer — a role which required him to join the actors ' union Equity .
29 It may be , of course , that the intention is to numb his senses before he gets to the umpteenth and penultimate clause which requires him to foot the bill for the monstrosity .
30 ‘ The accident might have been avoided if he had adopted an approach which enabled him to keep the crane in sight .
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